Bill Text: TX HB853 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the deployment of advanced metering and meter information networks in certain areas outside of ERCOT.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-24 - Effective immediately [HB853 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB853-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 853 | ||
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| relating to the deployment of advanced metering and meter | ||
| information networks in certain areas outside of ERCOT. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter L, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39.5521 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39.5521. METERING. (a) Notwithstanding Section | ||
| 39.552, an electric utility subject to this subchapter that elects | ||
| to deploy advanced metering and meter information networks may | ||
| recover reasonable and necessary costs incurred in deploying | ||
| advanced metering and meter information networks. An electric | ||
| utility that elects to deploy advanced metering or meter | ||
| information networks is subject to commission rules adopted under | ||
| Sections 39.107(h) and (k). The commission shall ensure that any | ||
| deployment plan approved under this section and any related | ||
| customer surcharge: | ||
| (1) are not applicable to customer accounts that | ||
| receive service at transmission voltage; and | ||
| (2) are consistent with commission rules related to | ||
| advanced metering systems regarding: | ||
| (A) customer protections; | ||
| (B) data security, privacy, and ownership; and | ||
| (C) options given consumers to continue to | ||
| receive service through a non-advanced meter. | ||
| (b) An electric utility subject to this subchapter that | ||
| elects to deploy an advanced meter information network shall deploy | ||
| the network as rapidly as practicable to allow customers to better | ||
| manage energy use and control costs. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 853 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 5, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 853 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
